Ideas on a self portrait

Right now I have two ideas warring in my head.

My first idea is to get 25 different videos of me hitting record and then doing a self portrait in some sort of visual medium (chalk, charcoal, pencil, computer, my own blood etc) -- then to stack these videos 5x5 and put them all on the screen at once -- starting at the same time and then ticking out one by one.

I like this idea because it explores the notion of artistic expression, it is complex and it is helplessly postmodern. All three of those things fit with me, I believe.

My other idea is to play with the idea of hand-drawn stop-motion animation. Stop motion has always been close to my heart -- the first videos I ever did were stop-motion on my mother's old movie camera. I used to spend 5 hour sitting in front of my whiteboard and photographing simple animations to share with my friends on youtube. If that isn't the essence of my artistic spirit, I don't know what is.

With animation I want to play with the idea of permanence -- using pen to make drawings and not allowing myself to discard or erase anything from any of my drawings. I'm also toying with the idea of self-reflexivity (I may have just made that word up) -- by labeling the number of each drawing (1/24th or possibly 1/12th of a second) and writing the time of completion. That way you could literally watch the hours drip away as the animation progresses.

Either way, i'm excited for this project. It's not that often that you are forced to go out and make whatever you want -- to toy with the raw materials of cinema and simply create without pressure or judgement. It's definitely taking me back.

PS -- Here's an example of my old stop-motion stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d0c6diWHM0

or this claymation I did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rN_cQKRYY8